The 2020 Dropouts

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Podcasts

News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week, Bret sits down with Leslie Marshall, Democratic strategist and Syndicated Talk Radio host, Marc Thiessen, Washington Post columnist and resident at AEI, and Chris Stirewalt, FOX News Politics Editor to discuss the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates who suspended their campaigns. They discuss recent dropouts in the race before the Super Tuesday vote, why certain candidates failed to connect with the Democratic electorate and the real case for Bernie Sanders as a the Democratic nominee. Follow Bret on Twitter: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3	From Fox News, it's the campaign with Brett Baer.
0:38.6	We're here on Super Tuesday, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to do well. The question is how well.
0:45.2	A recent shakeup in the 2020 Democratic field could make for surprising results. Most recently,
0:51.2	former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar suspended their campaigns and through their support to former Vice President Joe Biden.
1:02.1	So as candidates rise and fall, let's take a look back at how this large field of 20-plus candidates thinned down significantly.
1:10.3	But first, Fox News correspondent Jackie Heinrich has been following the candidates on the campaign trail and gives us an update.
1:16.7	Concerns are swirling today over the likelihood no candidate emerges from Super Tuesday with a majority of delegates
1:22.5	and the Democrats head toward a contested convention.
1:25.5	Ahead of Super Tuesday's results, self-described Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders
1:29.5	is still leading the delegate count.
1:31.6	But moderate support is consolidating around former Vice President Joe Biden after he emerged
1:36.4	the victor in South Carolina's primary, now ranking second in overall delegates.
1:41.0	And former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race,
1:45.0	endorsing Biden. And the big question mark today is how much support former mayor Michael Bloomberg
1:49.4	will poll and whether his candidacy will siphon off support for Biden ultimately helping Sanders.
1:54.8	This is the first time Bloomberg will be on the ballot after skipping the first four voting states
1:58.7	with a late start to the race. Today to campaign stop, he shook off pressure to coalesce, instead saying Biden is taking away
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